Introduction / Salvatore Mancuso -- Analogies and figures of speech in food and law : the fun side of law! / Christa Rautenbach -- Le droit louisianais, un gombo qui s'offre en partage / Olivier Moréteau -- Les ingrédients et les recettes de la cuisine juridique québécoise : entre mixité et pluralité / Matthieu Juneau -- Involvement of Polish legal elites in preparing a new draft of Civil Code, seen as an intellectual feast : menu a la carte or fast food? / Michał Gałędek and Anna Klimaszewska -- Globalization, Americanization, and the epidemic of human obesity : finding the legal reason for a symptom of cultural decline / Joseph P. Garske -- The new prisoner's dilemma : the right to refuse feeding or force-feeding as a duty? / Fabio Ratto Trabucco -- Food as punishment, food as dignity : the legal treatment of food in prison / Maria Chiara Locchi -- 'Elusive and fugitive' : relationships between water, law, culture and survival / Francine Rochford -- Does the EU legislation on the protection of farm animals protect their welfare?/ Moa Näsström -- Intellectual property law : Europe adopts a European patent with unitary effect and unified patent court / Alice Pezard -- La procédure participative avec avocat, un nouveau mode de règlement amiable des litiges au service du consommateur?/ Sylvie Bissaloué -- Product liability from a comparative perspective : what kinds of protection?/ Domitilla Vanni di San Vincenzo.